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Reply to Why I Hate: The Minimum Wage in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Stability, that is the key to a prosperous economy. Like you mentioned, when the economy is stable or expanding, the minimum wages are virtually useless since the wages grow with the market. However, in a restrictive scenario, employers CANNOT drastically play with the average wages and reduce them considerably under a reasonable amount. Such actions would bring serious dysfunctions everywhere. Employers must find other ways to control their costs,

Reply to Why I Hate: The Minimum Wage in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Minimum wages are usually used as a price floor by the government. Likewise, it stabilizes the global economy, especially in a time of crisis. A rise in unemployment is much better than a substantial deflation of the lower wages when there's a crisis. It’s an essential tool, in developed countries, to stabilize the demand and the consumption.

Reply to The Freaking Frogs! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The “guignols de l’information” always do stuff like that. They’ve done much worse things over the years. If only you knew what they say about Bush (and what they make his puppet do)... Link If you want to see part of it (they removed the worst parts...)

Reply to The US Government: Giving Less, Charging More in Politics JoeUser Forums

It only refers to the federal spending. The separation of powers between the federal and the provincial in Canada is different. The provinces are responsible for a lot more than the states are in the United States. That’s why the federal spending per capita in Canada is lower than in the United States.

Reply to The latest insanity in america in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

No Bakerstreet, owners can't pick who they serve and who they sell to... Such actions are illegal under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If things like that really happen, they should complain.

Reply to Hard Truths for a Better America in Politics JoeUser Forums

Stop looking at the numbers like that. You’re just scared because you see the word trillion. The debt, right now, is about equivalent (by the % of the GDP) to the early 90s level, or the end of the 50s or even early 40s. The truth is that it’s just not the time to be running surpluses when you had planes crashing in your buildings and when you just came out of a recession and when you just blew up a country and when you’re occupying another one with

Reply to Some Staggering Figures in Politics JoeUser Forums

What you’re suggesting is simply that we go back to pure liberalism... Well, it’s been tried, and it failed miserably. “In the long run, we're all dead”. That’s the famous quote that made most governments realise that they couldn’t wait for the markets to restabilise themselves. Governments must intervene in order to ensure the security and the welfare of the population. Debts are completely normal whether you’re buying a house, starting a busines

Reply to Bush: Cheap goods for the wealthy a priority in Politics JoeUser Forums

But, though Bush might suppoort it for some odd reason, it was Clinton, that great liberal Gorgon, who signed it into law. No no no It was Bush Sr who signed it in 1992, Congress approved it in 1993 and it came in effect in 1994 It was the two conservative governments in Canada and th

Reply to Bush: Cheap goods for the wealthy a priority in Politics JoeUser Forums

Unfortunately, they can’t even get free-trade right. They can’t even respect their own trade agreements. That’s why the WTO authorised over a dozen countries to impose trade sanctions on the US.

Reply to Cowards in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Puling someone off the respirator is not the same thing. Death is near instantaneous. Do they suffocate for 2-3 weeks? You pathetic fool! I hope you never have to starve to death. So called experts say it is painless! So why dont you try it. It was nothing more than an exaggerated example to demons

Reply to Cowards in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Is it inhumane to asphyxiate someone to death? Isn’t it what we do when we pull someone off a respirator? I think you’re the hypocrite since you’re not standing up for them! The Schiavo case doesn’t have anything new or special. They’ve been removing feeding tubes from people in VERY similar situations since 1983. The only difference here is that her family is opposed to it and some Christian groups have rallied Jesus freaks around it. Th

Reply to How Liberals are out to Destroy America in Politics JoeUser Forums

Aren’t you cute David. Don’t be so touchy, I’m just playing But may I suggest you look into how gay marriage got legalised in Ontario, Quebec or British Columbia? Maybe you’d get a better understanding of it.

Reply to How Liberals are out to Destroy America in Politics JoeUser Forums

David, where are you from exactly? Let me guess, some small town in the Prairies? Even if Alberta “separatism” is “very real”, like you say, it would take them many decades to organise anything substantial. It took Quebec more than 30 years to have a real chance of seceding. All this separation talk isn’t new either. The Canadian confederation is an artificial one that has been forcibly made. During the first election in 1867, 18 out of t

Reply to How Liberals are out to Destroy America in Politics JoeUser Forums

JE, do you think Canada would prefer another Quebec PM? Hey, they've only had the job since 1968 Turner and Campbel weren’t from Quebec. It's not Quebec's fault if they were incompetent and lost the power in their first year <TAB

Reply to How Liberals are out to Destroy America in Politics JoeUser Forums

Harper will never get the keys to 24 Sussex. He’s too, well, Albertan. Let’s face it, ever since the Bloc québécois was formed, the conservatives have absolutely no chance of winning Quebec. And without a solid control of Quebec, it’s VERY hard to get a majority government. Their only chance would be to get Ontario. However, most Ontarians are scared of Harper (just look at what happened during the last election). Stronach is a viable option, she

Reply to Canada Said What??? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

That is Ma Cheri you idiot. Actually, it’s Ma chérie, you moron

Reply to Wikipedia - so good that it's crazy in Search Engines JoeUser Forums

Wiki sites are the new fad. It really allows members to feel like they're part of the "community" since they can all collectively decide what stays and what gets deleted. Even your good friends at Democratic Underground started their own ( Link )

Reply to Wikipedia - so good that it's crazy in Search Engines JoeUser Forums

All you need with wikipedia is one devoted fan. Look at the authors of the article (under “history”). It was mainly written by a guy that calls himself “GreenReaper” who’s homepage is *surprise* *surprise* partly about WindowsBlind ( Link )

Reply to Nepal in Crisis in Politics JoeUser Forums

Okay.... And we're supposed to care , why? Are you always such a bigoted little bitch?

Reply to Want to Create More Jobs? Lower Wages! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

One way to create more jobs, is to reduce the workweek hour requirements for Salaried/Professional workers. A federally mandated full time workweek of 35 hours per week, would instantly create jobs. The 35 hour week thing doesn’t work that way. Ideally it would create more jobs instantly. But the prob

Reply to Economics 101 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

All I’m saying is that 70s were that bad because of those crises and not because the upped minimum wage (and why did this turn into minimum wage debate (especially during the 70s)? I said “Historically, the general demand for higher wages when the economy is rapidly growing </

Reply to Economics 101 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Phillips curves and the natural rate of unemployment that goes with it are extremely questionable (especially after the 90s). Comparing the 1973 crisis to anything else that happened recently is ridiculous. I’m guessing that you were alive in 1973... Don’t you remember the general panic and the all the measures the government took. It really shook the economy. As for the gold standards, well, I suppose yo

Reply to Economics 101 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Stagflation in the 70s was caused by abrupt crises that couldn't be fixed with normal revival economic policies. In that case, it was the ending of the Bretton Woods gold standard for the American dollar in 1971 and the oil crisis of 1973.

Reply to Economics 101 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Another area of ignorance is in wages. Everyone wants to increase wages for the lowest paid to give them a living wage. Yet these same people fail to understand that the money for those magnificant wages do not come from the money tree, but from the employer's pockets...... That’s a rather simplistic

Reply to State of the Union 2005 in Politics JoeUser Forums

The alarmist cries about the Social Security are rather funny. This isn’t about fixing something that will destroy your economy, it’s an ideological debate between Neoliberals and Keynesians. Economic theories always have more than one solution; there’s absolutely no way to possess the absolute truth on a macroeconomic level. If the whole economy crashes, it certainly won’t be because of Social Security. Adequate reforms can easily be applie